May the Twenty-Third Be With Us! And it will be with us to celebrate all the nerdy things that you hold dear. This month we have enlisted the talents of another top-notch host who has been putting on amazing gender bending shows in this city including Man Up! They graced the Nerd Nite stage last year to talk about Gender Peformance, now they help Michael bring us into the cat days of spring. Join us, maybe dress your gender bending best!
When: Wednesday May 23rd; Doors @ 7
1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Tenure?
Jake Lever
With the rise of AI, will the robots replace graduate students and one day become professors? Could they be making the discoveries of tomorrow in science and health care? I’ll be talking about how computers process language, whether they can understand it and what this might mean for the future.
Bio: Jake is a UBC PhD student in Bioinformatics at the Genome Sciences Centre. He spends his time teaching computers to read papers so his colleagues don’t need to read as many. This helps to find the meaning of mutations in cancer and guide treatments. He still thinks that Perfect Dark is the greatest game ever made.
2. History of Drag
Nadine Boulay
Bio: Nadine Boulay is a PhD student at Simon Fraser University in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Researcher of queer history, amateur at all things digital humanities, oral historian, and doctoral candidate living on unceded Coast Salish territories.
3. Conservation Finance
Devyani Kumari
Bio: Devyani is a Ph.D. candidate in Forest Resource Management at the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the intersection of household energy access, climate change, forest sustainability, and payments for ecosystem services. Devyani is passionate about working on science-policy issues and seeing an impact on local communities worldwide.
